Not to mention their plans/bandwidth/tech/etc is listed on their site.

Better prices than I've found elsewhere. Just started an account with them, and so far love it.

Well, except for the small thing of not being able to get through to my site for about five minutes yesterday. But that happens so rarely...or so I've noticed...that it really doesn't make a difference to me.

I'd love to install Firefox on my computer - I tried to but it wouldn't install for some reason. That last automaticaly installed MS Windows security update screwed up my computer so bad that I can't install anything until have 300 hours to reformat my hard drive and reinstall. UGH.

Another alternative is Maxthon (formerly MyIE2). It uses the IE rendering engine, so no worries about sites that don't display correctly, windows update, etc. and gives you all the security, popup blocking, ad-blockin, tabbed-browsing, and the plug-in abilities of firefox.

"IE Rendering Engine"...hehehe...that's part of the problem. Not so much from a security angle but from a standards conpliant standpoint. IE simply doesn't respect certian CSS techniques viewed by W3C as "standard". This results in the page not displaying properly in IE. Unfortunately due to the ubiquity of IE it's the other browsers that are standards compliant that get the "it doesn't work right in X" rant. As developers create hacks to make IE do certain things with CSS they start deviating from the standards.

I don't understand what IE has to do with virus/trojan/malware being progated via a web page. Granted the holes in IE are troublesome but providing the source of the page and -- and it's advertisers, I notice some iframes scattered about -- is sound, I don't see what a users browser choice has to do with anything.

Michele, I get that part... but, and it's a big one, the particular nasty that is exploiting IE has to exist on the server, in a directory that is public. That is the responsibility of the site owner or whomever is being paid to maintain it.

Blaming this on IE is akin to someone saying that their Flash memory card will work fine in Minoltas, Canons and Kodaks but is seriously going to fuck up your Nikon.

"By embedding a specially crafted URL in a Web page and having that URL refer to a CHM file containing an HTML file with scripts in it, an attacker could force the user who views the Web page with a vulnerable version of Internet Explorer to download and execute files."

Now, consider what a blog is and how easy it is to include links like this in comments and trackbacks.

If that link points to a file local to your workstation, like this(points to your C:\windows\iis6.log file)...or a CHM file...then it doesn't matter what the host of the blog is running for an Operating System because the link is referencing YOUR harddrive. HostingMatters is simply a middleperson...unwitting middleperson to the hack which is facilitated by IE.

The second link doesn't work in Firefox...at least not on my install. Welcome to the shady side of the web. All kinds of nastiness can be had with links. If Michele gives me permission I might could show some of the nastiness that is possible. ;) Might do it on my site tonight just for alittle fun. Click my name to get to my site. Gimme alittle bit to work something up. ;)